I woke up one morning with my insulin pump lying next to me on my bedside table. I live alone, and one of my biggest fears is having a dangerously low bloodsugar overnight. I shared my fears of dying in my sleep because of undetected low bloodsugar.

In this condensed excerpt, Quinn shares what it was like when her mother identified she had uncontrolled high bloodsugars. Quinn, would you check your bloodsugar on Will’s meter?”. It’s probably nothing, but I want to check your bloodsugar.”. sponsor.

Life with Diabetes Type 1 Diabetes Type 2 Diabetes A1c Adam Brown Bright Spots and Landmines Book diabetes burnout diabetes management exercise insulin sleepThis article is reprinted with permission from diaTribe. Find the original article here. By Adam Brown How a good night of sleep transforms my diabetes the next day Sleep is usually an afterthought in diabetes, taking a back seat to food, exercise, medication, and glucose monitoring. It took me a long time – and a lot of […].

Her bloodsugar is 140 mg/dL. Do you: A) Reduce her pump’s temp basal rate before you start running to keep her bloodsugar stable and prevent a low. miles because the CGM says 85 mg/dL and still dropping, and keep feeding her fast-acting sugars.

And how does the sweetener keep our bloodsugar level under control? Researchers have discovered that stevia stimulates a protein that is essential for our perception of taste and is involved in the release of insulin after a meal. What makes stevia taste so extremely sweet? These results create new possibilities for the treatment of diabetes

Their study identifies fasting bloodsugar and/or fasting insulin as new biomarkers for weight loss in people with prediabetes or diabetes A personalized diet approach could lead to greater weight loss and maintenance success, report researchers.

Researchers have developed a new technique that uses modified insulin and red blood cells to create a glucose-responsive 'smart' insulin delivery system. In an animal model study, the new technique effectively reduced bloodsugar levels for 48 hours in a strain of mice that had Type 1 diabetes MORE >>

In 1920, when Dr. Frederick Banting and medical student Charles Best extracted the hormone insulin from the pancreas, they revolutionized the world of diabetes care. Insulin works by moving the sugar or glucose obtained from food into your body’s cells, which is then used for energy. People with diabetes either don’t make enough insulin, or their bodies don’t effectively use the insulin they produce. Robert Gabbay, Chief Medical Officer of Joslin. MORE >>

By Jane Abbey, RN, CDE, Fit4D Certified Diabetes Educator When you think diabetes, “bloodsugar” or “blood glucose” immediately comes to mind. If you are newly diagnosed you may be surprised to learn that caring for yourself with diabetes doesn’t only involve your bloodsugar. For those who have had diabetes a while, you probably are […]. MORE >>

Prednisone can affect bloodsugar. When you have diabetes, even a short course of prednisone at a low dose is likely to wreak havoc with your blood glucose levels. Elevated glucose levels can lead to glucose toxicity further impairing insulin secretion. That means that people with diabetes taking prednisone are likely to see a significant bump in their blood glucose numbers depending on the dose of steroid given. MORE >>

We cannot "control" bloodsugars in people with diabetes who use insulin. But that frustrates health professionals; after all their job is to cure us, short of that to fix the problem - our up and down bloodsugars. But that is the very nature of diabetes - fluctuating bloodsugars. This was on Facebook. This is not my Dexcom, but it could be. MORE >>